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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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